#ml destruction

[trashart00]

The streets are saying the special takes place on Strike Back-Evolution-Multiplication-Destruction night

Transcribed because handwriting:

Claw: Aw look, it’s the sad, pathetic, wet cardboard version of me

Chat: I cataclysmed a man

Chat: And I would do it again

Chat: The darkness consumes me…

Chat: Just as my cataclysm consumes him

LB: we’ve had a day

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

Can we all just think about what this day has been for Adrien?

Imagine you wake up for the day, excited to have your bi-yearly scheduled lunch with your father, only to be told he has canceled on you once again and when you finally get the courage to speak your mind and talk to him, he interrupts you and tells you that you will be moving away from your home and beloved friends (with a person you hate) for an indefinite period of time. Imagine then, that you head to school, where you share a tender moment with someone who is definitely not just a friend and they give you the advice to talk to your father.

You then get home from school, where you are ambushed by your manipulative cousin, who is offering to trade places with you and help you out with your problem, only to discover he is scheming again. Before you can do anything about that, you have to go save the world with your superhero partner, who you've been feeling a little neglected by lately and for some reason, all those negative feelings seem to be manifesting right now during the fight. She then call in some reinforcements, and this new guy, that she keeps fawning over is giving you bad vibes (it's definitely not just jealously guys).

You save the day and head home, this time with the intent of actually confronting your father, only to be stopped by your superhero partner, who for some reason is looking for your civilian counterpart. She claims that she handed you a miraculous and you very quickly realize that your scheming and manipulative cousin, was scheming and manipulative.

You watch as your partner has a panic attack and do your best to calm her down and help her retain some miraculous. You hear her muffled cries through the door and when you go to check on her, she's gone. You find out that the villain you fight has got a hold of the miraculous and you go to find your partner.

You find her and manager to comfort her, all the while sharing a not-at-all platonic moment with her, and you prepare to fight the villain who has re-monikered himself and given himself new powers.

You see the rabbit miraculous and what looks like a future version of yourself show up and you realize that you will have to go through time in a time battle to reclaim the rabbit miraculous. You are given a rabbit miraculous to use and your very concept of space and time are altered as a result. After a lengthy, convoluted battle, you say goodbye to a good friend and decide to head to London to interrogate your aunt. The interrogation leading nowhere, you decide to head home only to be immediately called by your partner asking you to head to the wax museum and pose like a statue (which totally brings back some memories for you...). You finally get rid of that piece of paper in your bell and manage to capture the villain who you've been fighting for so long.

Except, the plan fails. The villain manages to get away with all of the Kwamis and now you have a weight on your conscious. You have just used against a person the power you vowed to use only for good. You are reminded of the significant power that you wield.

You once more arrive home and turn on the TV to try and distract yourself. Only to see that there's once more a problem that needs your help. You get there and see two people who have similar powers to you and your partner, but there's something wrong. Your partner asserts that they aren't akumatized, but you are wary. You learn that they are a version of you from a different universe, or at least a version of your power. You once more, are reminded the of ultimate destruction you have at your fingertips.

You come to understand that these doubles are in fact your partner and yourself from another universe. A universe, where the villain you are fighting is now your ally. Once assuring your friends are safe, you go after your double to fight them. When you meet to speak to them person to person and talk through your shared trauma. You learn that he too lost his precious mother, but he has no one to help him through it. You relive that loss together. You talk him down from making the wish that a part of you wants to make every single day. You begin to realize the version of you isn't bad, he's just hurting.

After ensuring the safety of other universes and giving a hopeful send of to your doubles, you finally, finally this time head home for the night.

Surveying around your room, you are reminded of the morning that feels like forever ago. You remember what your cousin said, what your good friend said. Emboldened by her words, you decide it's time to face your father. You go to his office where he's working and utter the words you never thought you would: I don't want to be a model anymore

Your father passively assents to this, and finally finally you are free.

You are filled with gratitude and this odd warmth that you don't spend too much time analyzing. You need to do something to thank the person who's advice got you what you so desperately wanted. You decide to call her up and thank her face-to-face.

You call her on the phone, which gets answered by her best friend, and then finally her and you give her your most sincere expression of gratitude, thanking her for everything she has done for you this past year.

As the warmth inside of your chest grows, you tell her you will do your best to pay it. You end the phone call with a smile on your face and a happy sigh.

Finally, with thoughts of your dear friend roaming around your mind, you fall asleep exhausted but happy.

This was all one day.

[sofilandstuff]

it's been awhile since I made a silly comic about the new episodes

[makaira-art]

I’m so busy but I cobbled this together after watching Destruction and Jubilation bc that could NOT have been real. Right??

[yeet-noir]

Adrien showing up to school the next day:

[whatthechatdraggedin]

This was painful to watch... the miraculous had their own unique special designs and now they're all rings

[adrienaline-rushed-art]

CN: "Aw, thanks Ladybug, I'll feel at peace when someone finds this on my lifeless body."

LB: " >:( ...I'll kill you dead myself, then" This comic has been echoing in the chambers of my skull since the moment I finished watching Destruction and I finally drew it. The scene of Ladybug handing Chat Noir the "halfwit" note had me dying and then I realized... he really spent who knows how long with that thing in his bell. Alternatives for the note: "precious baby boy baby", "good kitty", "ladybug's favorite", "ladybug's treasure", "blorbo", "perfect", "amazing", "wonderful", "phenomenal", "extraordinary"... need I go on?

[petitminou]

#orange sunsets and domesticity

[marimakesart]

Cat noir after monarch conveniently disappeared for weeks after he was cataclysmed:

[sidsinning]

Remembering Adrien doesn't know he's probably about to kill his dad since Gabriel's time is running out but still happy for him nonetheles

[i-wiggle-i-squirm-bc-i-am-a-worm]

I can’t stop thinking abt if the Chat Blanc timeline somehow took place after she put the lil note in... like it would’ve fallen out when she breaks the bell... wtf would she even think?

idk what the official translation of what she puts in his bell is gonna be, dimwit is just from the sub translation I watched asdfghjkjhgfd

[bugabella]

⚠️ destruction ep spoilers(ish) ⚠️

is the show ever going to acknowledge that the kwamis also know where chat noir lives? cuz that’d be way funnier considering monarch and chat noir live in the same house. like

Monarch: lead me to chat noir’s house.

Kwami(s): we can’t lead you there.

Monarch: why? why can’t you?

Kwamis: there’s… nowhere to lead you.

and monarch then thinks chat noir is homeless

[sunsketch]

Hey look a new love square just dropped!

...

*INTERNAL SCREAMING*

[flightfoot]

You know, I love how Evolution and Destruction explained why Gabriel isn’t automatically winning now that he has so many kwamis under his control. That was a major thing people were wondering, saying that the show couldn’t possibly pull off, that it’d require some insane plot armor and jumping through hoops to explain why he can’t just trounce Ladybug and Chat Noir now.

But the show took it into account and showed what happened when he tried that!

Gabriel has the time travel Miraculous? Bunnyx is still around to help our heroes pursue him.

He uses multiple Miraculous at once, giving him more powers and options? He overuses them to the point that he temporarily knocks himself out, and Ladybug and Chat Noir are just on a far more even footing with him nowadays than during, say, Heroes Day, so they’re able to keep up with him, even when he’s using four or five Miraculous at once. He’s still only one person, after all.

He tries to use the Rooster to give him the power he needs to either time travel or to discover Ladybug’s identity? The Rooster can’t give a power that belongs to another kwami, nor can it circumvent another kwami’s power.

He tries to get around the identity-concealing restriction on the kwamis, the one that prevents them from telling him her name, by asking them other things that aren’t protected - say, where she lives? Marinette accounted for that and set up a trap for him, playing him for a fool.

Why doesn’t he try these different approaches again, instead of falling back on the old “sent supervillains to try to steal Ladybug’s and Chat Noir’s Miraculous” approach that’s been so unsuccessful? Because the time travel plan resulted in him losing the Time Miraculous and pissing off Nathalie, and the identity-discovery plan resulted in him getting Cataclysmed, with neither plan ultimately conferring any benefit to him. Best to go back to the shadows before he loses more.

Seriously, I’m impressed, the writers managed to give Gabriel so much power, and yet not write themselves into a corner.

[shortmexicangirl]

can we talk about how chat noir went from being DEVASTED that he accidentally cataclysmed hawkmoth, his nemesis, in destruction...

...to impulsively TRYING to cataclysm the akamutazied villain in jubilation, only reluctantly stopping because of ladybug.

(i fear gabriel isn't the only one who'll be corrupted by chat noir's cataclysm... )

[yeet-noir]

So is part of the reason why Gabriel didn’t shut down Adrien when he said he didn’t want to model because his arm where his ring is harmed. He winced as if he would touch the ring in response to Adrien, but it was too painful so he didn’t bothered…

Or am I just looking too much into it.